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Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
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When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
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Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Yisra'el, I will judge you everyone after his ways.
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It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one who had escaped out of Yerushalayim came to me, saying, The city has been struck.